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Fri, 24/02/2023 - 09:59

THE Nana Glen Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) needs volunteers to put up their hands as the service is down to one member. An urgent call-out on social media for volunteers has brought in a number of people enquiring to be trained, attend call-outs and give of their time, and while that is a great...

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Fri, 24/02/2023 - 09:55

GREENS MP and spokesperson for the environment Sue Higginson has urged Labor and the Coalition to join the Greens in a tripartisan approach to the proposed NSW Landcare Program 2023-2027 and to deliver a $59 million funding commitment over the next four years. The program is a collaboration of Local Land Services and Landcare NSW...

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Fri, 24/02/2023 - 09:53

SIX amazing women have been selected as finalists for this year’s Coffs Coast Woman of the Year, to be announced at the International Women’s Day Breakfast on March 8. Three major Coffs Coast women’s groups, Zonta Coffs Harbour Inc, BPW Coffs Coast (Business and Professional Women) and the Coffs Coast Business Women’s Network (BWN), collaborate...

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Fri, 24/02/2023 - 09:49

COFFS Harbour Showground Exhibition Hall and grandstand will literally light up with a new transformer/substation being installed as part of the upgrades on the historic Pacific Highway site. Funded by a $350,000 grant under Round Five of the NSW Government’s Stronger Country Communities Fund, the transformer is on order and keenly awaited by the Coffs...

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Fri, 24/02/2023 - 09:24

The reintroduction of blanket alcohol bans on NT town camps and communities heralds the return of racist Intervention-era controls over Aboriginal people.

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Fri, 24/02/2023 - 09:16

The NSW Liberals are unravelling in the face of growing scandals, with polls showing Labor comfortably ahead as the state election approaches on 25 March.

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Fri, 24/02/2023 - 09:00
And the stupid crazy Ron Brownstein interviewed Simon Rosenberg of the NDN , one of the few Democratic analysts who saw that the 2022 Red Wave was hype. Here, he explains how he knew that: Brownstein: There was a widespread narrative in the media about the red wave. I spoke on the weekend before the election to half a dozen top-level Democratic operatives and pollsters who were anticipating disaster. You and a couple others were really the conspicuous exceptions to that. I’m wondering why the general wisdom, not only in the media, but in much of the party, was so off? And what are the implications of that for 2024? Rosenberg: When I look back at what happened, I go back to something we’ve been discussing, which is the power of the right-wing propaganda machines to bully public opinion into places that it shouldn’t be going. And I think there was never a red wave, and there needs to be a lot more public introspection done by those of us who do political analysis about why so many people got it wrong. The only way you could believe that a red wave was coming was if you just discounted the ugliness of MAGA.